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Friday, July 5, 2013

Thunderbird 9 NASCAR Feature for ESPN - USAF Thunderbirds | This feature, produced by Adrienne Sack for ESPN revisits the actions of Thunderbird 9, Maj. Michael Carletti, after an accident on the last lap of the Saturday Nationwide race at Daytona International Speedway in February, 2013.

VIDEO: More Air Performances Scheduled For Shriners Fest - Tristatehomepage.com | It appears the Blue Angels' canceled Hadi Shriners Fest performance was only a bump in the road. Organizers say this year event-goers will be spending more time with their eyes to the sky. "When the Blues canceled on us, they were as crushed as we were," says Steven Eberhart, air show coordinator for Hadi Shriners Fest. "We had really a standard, generic air show put together at that point." After the initial disappointment, Eberhart says his team came together and brainstormed new ideas to expand the air performances and make them even more exciting than years past...

2013 Truckee Tahoe AirFair & Family Festival | Free Show Saturday, July 6, 2013 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is the first full airshow in 17 years. All funds raised go to our local youth through the three not for profit organizations volunteering their time to put it on. EAA Chapter1073, Truckee Optimist Club and the KidZone Museum.

Champion aerobatic pilot to wow crowds at Truckee air fair - tahoedailytribune.com | ...On July 6 at the Truckee Tahoe Airport, the community can look up and watch a woman fly her shiny blue, black and silver Edge 540, and do barrel rolls around Superman — or, rather, her husband — while he freefalls in his wingsuit — an astonishing air show performance like nothing you have ever seen before. Melissa Pemberton, 28, is a champion aerobatic pilot who, with her husband Rex, will be giving spectators the show of a lifetime at the second annual Truckee Tahoe AirFair & Family Festival...

Young stunt pilot performs at Fair St. Louis - KSDK By Grant Bissell | ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - The air show is usually a huge draw at Fair St. Louis on the Riverfront and this year features one of the youngest stunt pilots in the world. Kevin Coleman is only 23-years-old and air show piloting runs in his blood. His dad and older brother flew in air shows and Kevin's been at it for four years....

Tuskegee Airmen in the spotlight at Fair St. Louis - SuburbanJournals | George Boyd travels across the country — to air shows, high schools and universities — telling stories about his days as a Tuskegee Airman and delivering a message: Americans should never stop fighting for their rights. He estimates that he’s told more than 80,000 people that message so far, and he’ll keep doing so this weekend at Fair St. Louis....

Snowbirds to take to the skies at Saskatoon air show - News Talk 650 CKOM | Show will feature Trudeau, strong-man demo and salute to WWII vet | The snowbirds and Justin Trudeau will be in Saskatoon this weekend for the Canada Remembers Our Heroes Air Show. The two-day air show takes place at the Auto Clearing Motor Speedway. Trudeau will speak on Saturday during the opening ceremonies, which start shortly before 1 p.m....

Planes of Fame Hosting AVG Flying Tigers Event July 6th - Warbird News | The Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California will be holding a living history event on July 6. The topic for the event shall be the Flying Tigers and the AVG, featuring the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. There will be a discussion panel featuring distinguished aviation experts, historians and veterans, followed by a question & answer period and flight demonstration....

Air show to take off over Cedar Creek Lake by David Webb | The annual "Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake" air show will fly again Saturday, July 6, at 6 p.m. over the lake. The performance will include aerial acrobatics by jet fighters. The evening includes with a fireworks show over the lake...

The Answers to the Questions You've Been Asking · Rich Davidson | ... What about events? Well, there will be no fly-in this year. Yes your read that right. There will be no fly-in this year. It was an extremely difficult decision but once we realized it came down to focusing on the event or getting the buildings repaired, it became much easier. The event is such a mental and physical drain, despite all the good that comes from it, we just weren’t able to do both. Furthermore, attempting to hold the even without the necessary infrastructure would be madness. ... As for Sinful Sundays, the local community has made them harder for us to hold and until we have the appropriate infrastructure, or a membership program in place, we will not be able to host them as they were. What we are capable of doing is...

NTSB releases preliminary report - WDTN | VANDALIA, Ohio (WDTN) - Federal Transportation Officials have released it's preliminary findings into what caused a deadly crash at the Vectren Dayton Air Show. The report relies heavily on videos and photos submitted by spectators that shows around 12:45 pm on Saturday , June 22 the Boeing-Stearman airplane, operated by Jane Wicker Air Shows, impacted terrain at Dayton International Airport....

Two die in chopper crash at Libya airshow - Herald Sun | A LIBYAN military helicopter has crashed during an airshow in the eastern city of Benghazi killing two crew members and wounding a third, an airforce official says. The accident occurred on Thursday while a military parade was underway at the Benina airbase in Libya's second city and cradle of the 2011 uprising that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi. "A lieutenant colonel and a lieutenant were killed ... while a third crew member, a lieutenant, was seriously wounded," airbase commander Colonel Nasser Busnina said....

Hopes are high Prince Harry will be at Fairford air tattoo - Swindon Advertiser | Hopes are high Prince Harry will be at Fairford air tattoo | ROYAL watchers will be out in force at the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford later this month hoping that Prince Harry will be among the crew in the Army Air Corps Attack Helicopter Display Team. Last month, the Prince – known as Captain Wales to his colleagues – made his air display debut as co-pilot/gunner in the front seat of an Apache AH1 at the RAF Cosford Air Show...

Oris Ambri Fly-In 2013: 150 aircraft, 30 ° C, 1 Swiss watchmaker - Passion for Aviation | After six years of interruption for the first time under the auspices of Oris, the flights training "Ambri Fly-In" are back. The event took place on June 15 and 16 at the aerodrome of Ambri, located south of the Gotthard Pass in Switzerland, and have more than 150 aircraft and 6,000 visitors.

Honoring a 70-Year Old Memory of a B-17 Crew Operating in France ... - Second Line of Defense | ... But not only in the United States is sequestration having its perceptual impacts â the absence of the USAF was certainly noted at Le Bourget and only by a miracle did the USAF have representation at a powerful ceremony held on Noirmoutier island, France, the scene of B-17 raid, and the rescue of downed crewmen after a raid against Nazi air and maritime facilities in this part of France....

Sky-diving a hard habit to break for veteran parachute team - WRAL.com | Fayetteville, N.C. — As a former member of the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights parachute team, Mike Elliot has done it all. He’s even parachuted from an airplane while strapped to a former president. When he retired after 26 years in the Army, he found himself restless to do more. “I want to continue to serve, continue to do this,” he said. “I’m retired, but I have great skill sets. I’m at the top of my game.”...

Celebrating the Cradle of Civil Aviation Wright Brothers Park Dedication Video - Alabama Aviator | 7/4/2013 - Celebrating the Cradle of Civil Aviation Wright Brothers Park Dedication Video MONTGOMERY AL- Joining the ranks of the Smithsonian in Washington DC to the Museum of Flight in Seattle Washington from Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park, Dayton Ohio to Wright Brothers National Memorial Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina, from College Park, Maryland to Le Mans, France, is the Wright Brothers Park in Montgomery, Alabama says Amanda Wright Lane, great niece of the famous brothers, "we will never be the same again."...